The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-04-14
STATE GLEANINGS.
Durant has three tanneIies.

Grcenville is to have another
compress.
Mrs. JEFF Turner, of wesson, died
last week.
The Wtsson young folks enjoy
calico parties.
The /. o. o f. Lodge at Wesson
is in a huurishing condition.
The Dental Association of this
State meets in May at Meridian.
Only s white men of Brandon had
the gall to vote the whisky ticket.
Tue State Medical Association
will convene in Jackson April
Goth.
A little son of Senator Buchanan,
nt Rankin, WAS drowned in a clstern
last week.
The priz"s offered for best
lady riders at the fair in Aberdeen
are $25, SIS, and $40
The Tupelo Journal is now all
printed at home and one of the best
country papers IN the State.
The ladies' of IIazlehurst are
going to get up an old fashioned
May celebration the first week in
MAY.
The Lowry, Miller Guards.
colored military company,
was recently organized at Nlcks-
burg.
The reported destruction OF the
steamer Earl and the big IRON bridge
in Pike county turned out TO be an
April fool hoax.
Rev. w. b. Bingham and family
were made the object of n large
pound party by the good people of
Haziehurst recently
Rev. J. b. Gambreil, editor Of
the Baptist Record, will preach the
commencement sermon at the
Glllsburg Institute this year.
Gov. Lowry has committed to
imprisonment for life the death
sentence of Joseph Grain, convicted
of murder in Hancock county.
Mr.. John C.. McLaurin, one Of the
oldest and most highly respected
citizens of Simpson county, died at
his home near Jayneo>ill last week.
The next session of the u. S.
Court will be held at Jackson, com
mencing May /; then at Oxford,
June |; then at Vicksburg, July
lst.
Green Case WAS the only convict
sentenced to the penitentiary from
Franklin county last week. The
business of the Court was
finished in four days.
The circuit clerk of Holmes coun
~ recently had marriage license
returned with letter from the
groom, announcing that his intend
ed had gone back on him.
On the 7th inst, Henry Adams, a
colorcd preacher, was tonnd dead
with 9un-shot wound in his back
on the Bluffs plantation, near
Church Hill, jefferson county.
Hon. w. O. Norrell, of Rankin
county, member of the last housy
of representatives, has removed Ia
Beaver City. Utah, where he has
received profitable appointment.
CAPT. John S. Lewis, editor and
proprietor Of the Woodvile Repub
lican, is n candidate for the office OF
Chancerv clerk. His opponent is
Mr.. R. w. p. HUFF, the present in.
cumbent.
Mr.. r. S. Withers, of Kinds
county, intends to divide 5000
acres of land into small farms and
settle them with white colonists
from Kentucky. The idea seems
worthy of imitation.
Jackson has a Land Improve
ment Co, with J. b. Harris, l.
Brame, w. w. Stone, William
Short, T. A. Neville, S. f. Vir.
den, Paul Barnett, w L. Nugent
p w. Peoples, j. II. Odeneal and
+. A. Wolfe, all home men, as incor,
porators.
The Prcsbytery of Central Mis-
sissippi convened at French Camp
last week. The next meeting will
be at Greenwood. Rev. j. H. Alex
ander and Col. j. l.. Power were
elected commissioners to the Gener-
al Assembly that meets in st Louis
next month.
The ladies of Brandon held a
prayer meeting and set free lunch
in the Court House yard the day of
the local option election. TO the
ladies of the county the men right
ly give all the honor OF carving the
county "For God and Home and
Native Land"
DIR. J. William Jones, Of Virginia,
who was Gen. Robert +. Lees chap
lain during the war, lectured at
jackson last week under the aus
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